Sven Lindahl

{{Short description|Swedish journalist and musician (1937–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Sven_Lindahl_broadcaster.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 25 June 1937 | birth_place = | death_date = 2 July 2025 | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}

'''Sven Gustaf Lindahl''' (25 June 1937 – 2 July 2025) was a Swedish journalist, songwriter and radio and television presenter.<ref name="minnenas">{{cite journal |last1=Gänger |first1=Hasse |title=Sven Lindahl – vårt första stora nyhetsankare i TV |journal=Minnenas Journal |date=4 October 2016 |url=https://www.minnenasjournal.nu/sven-lindahl-vart-forsta-stora-nyhetsankare-i-tv/ |accessdate=20 November 2019}}</ref>

As a teenager, he played in a boogie-woogie band.<ref name="minnenas" /> After leaving school, he worked briefly as a welding apprentice in Luton and later studied at an iron foundry in Chesterfield but eventually came to study journalism at Poppius Journalistskola before he started working at the local newspaper Västerort.<ref name="minnenas" />

Lindahl presented the radio show Svensktoppen for Sveriges Radio. Lindahl hosted Melodifestivalen,<ref name="hemmets">{{cite journal |last1=Ohlsson |first1=Birgitta |title=Sven Lindahl: Jag blev kändis över en natt – vilken tur att jag hade en klok hustru! |journal=Hemmets Journal |date=25 April 2006}} </ref> twice in 1963 and 1966. In addition, Lindahl commented for Sweden at the 1964 and the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest. From 1969, Lindahl was a member of SKAP (Swedish composers of popular music).<ref>[http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/477/2007/06/444568 Grattis Mora Nisse...Ur Spår Sven Lindahl...] </ref>

On 2 July 2025, Lindahl died at the age of 88.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=21 September 2012 |title=Mångkulturalismen är död, Mångkulturen lever! |url=https://doi.org/10.6027/9789289341301-10-sv |access-date=5 July 2025 |website=doi.org |doi=10.6027/9789289341301-10-sv }}</ref><ref>[https://www.ratsit.se/19370625-Sven_Gustaf_Lindahl_Nykvarn/w79SqlNLdZWtTpAeBWYKBkU_3hxOjQrZCuylkW7m9nM Sven Lindahl] {{in lang|sv}}</ref><ref>[https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/RzMeRA/nyhetsankaret-sven-lindahl-ar-dod Nyhetsankaret Sven Lindahl är död] {{in lang|sv}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{discogs artist|Sven Lindahl}} * {{imdb name|1495189}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindahl, Sven}} Category:1937 births Category:2025 deaths Category:Musicians from Stockholm Category:Swedish television personalities Category:Swedish radio personalities Category:Swedish male songwriters Category:Swedish journalists